Language guide

Azerbaijani Names: Meanings, Origins & Traditions

Azerbaijani names are recorded in the Latin alphabet of the Republic of Azerbaijan, which includes the letter ə. Azerbaijani is closely related to Turkish, and many names are shared, but the site lists Azerbaijani usage only where a source documents it.

Azərbaycanca

Oghuz branch of the Turkic language family

Published names: 601
Scripts in our data: Latin
ISO 639-1: az

Browse Azerbaijani names

254 names · page 8 of 11

Rəfiqə
“companion, friend”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Rehime
“merciful woman”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Rena
“name of a kind of flower; pretty, beautiful”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Reside
“mature”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Rəvanə
“flowing; soul”
From Persian · Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Reyhan
“name of a kind of flower”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Röya
“dream, vision”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani
Girl1 syllableEditorial
Ruhəngiz
“soul-stirring, uplifting”
From Arabic and Persian · Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Rüxsarə
“face, cheek”
From Persian · Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Sabire
“patient, forbearing”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Şahanə
“royal, regal”
From Persian · Turkish, Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Sahibe
“owner, possessor; friend, companion”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Şahnaz
“royal grace”
From Persian · Turkish, Azerbaijani
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Şahsənəm
“royal beauty”
From Persian and Arabic · Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Samirə
“evening companion in talk”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesEditorial

Samiyə
“high, lofty”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Sara
“princess, noblewoman”
From Hebrew · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Səadət
“happiness, gladness”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Sebihe
“beautiful, pretty”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Səbinə
“Sabine woman”
From Latin · Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Şəbnəm
“dew”
From Azerbaijani · Turkish, Azerbaijani
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Sədaqət
“loyalty, sincerity”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Şəfəq
“glow of dawn or dusk”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Şəfiqə
“compassionate, tender”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesEditorial

How Azerbaijani names are written

Azerbaijan switched from Cyrillic to Latin in 1991. In Iran, Azerbaijani is written in Arabic script, and in Dagestan (Russia) Cyrillic is still used. The letter ə has no equivalent in Turkish; search treats it like e but entries keep the original spelling.

Where Azerbaijani names come from

A name used in Azerbaijani is not automatically Azerbaijani in origin. Here is how the documented origins of the Azerbaijani names published so far break down (a name with elements from two languages counts under both):

Arabic
390
Persian
155
Turkic
86
Hebrew
19
Azerbaijani
11
Greek
4
Bashkir
3

Counted from 601 published entries. Each name page explains its own etymology with sources.

Azerbaijani names by meaning

Azerbaijani belongs to the Oghuz branch of the Turkic languages, together with Turkish and Turkmen. Related languages share many words, but a name is listed under a language only when it is documented there.

Other languages: Uyghur · Kazakh · Kyrgyz · Uzbek · Tatar · Bashkir · Tajik

References for this page

Wikipedia contributors. Azerbaijani alphabet. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1382203157. Accessed 2026-10-28. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wikipedia contributors. Turkic languages. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1377797900. Accessed 2026-10-28. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.